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Have you heard of 'race-to-idle' or 'race-to-sleep'? Temporarily allowing performance (and thus power) spikes might make your whole system consume less energy,
by eru 1y ago
Have you heard of 'race-to-idle' or 'race-to-sleep'?
Temporarily allowing performance (and thus power) spikes might make your whole system consume less energy, because it can idle more.
- nottorp 1y agoYou can't race to idle when two out of three websites go amok with your CPU :) That's like saying communism works in theory, it's just applied wrong.
- maccard 1y agoNone of these high end CPUs are bursting to 5+GHz for a regular website’s JavaScript. They’re running at their normal 40-60w draws. That massive burst is when you throw video encoding or compilation tasks at it. You can tell because you need to open a window when it happens.